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When you say can-jo, do you mean like soda and beer and cling peaches can?
or can as in tin as in cookie/biscuit tin?
Both types, and not limited to a single string, and including fret-less, diatonic and chromatic fretting (and micro tonal if that's where your interests lie). We may have to define sub categories and terminology as we go, but that's part of the fun. The two of the three canjo I have built were with soda cans (one with the open end down, and the other with the open end up). From those experiments it seems the sound comes from the open end, so for my third canjo, I used a thin stainless steel bowl to project the sound more toward the (imagined) audience. This third canjo may be too shallow and wide and does not seem to project as much as I had imagined. The stainless steel bowl was mounted to the canjo stick with a single screw and nut in the dead center bottom of the bowl, and the "bridge hole" where the string comes through and contacts the bowl is about half-way up the side of the bowl. The string is anchored to the center screw/nut holding the bowl to the canjo stick. Maybe stainless steel bowls as compared to aluminum cans don't make as good resonators.
Diane in Chicago said:When you say can-jo, do you mean like soda and beer and cling peaches can?
or can as in tin as in cookie/biscuit tin?
By "both types", I mean canjos build from soda/beer/soup (etc.) cans and canjos built from cookie/cake tins where the orientation of the can is such that it faces the audiance like a banjo. But I think the definition of a canjo should not be limitied to these two style of mounting the can to the canjo stick.
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